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Charlie Living Friedrichstadt, Berlin

Charlie Living Friedrichstadt Berlin

10 July 2020

Charlie Living Berlin Apartments

Architects: GRAFT Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH

Location: Friedrichstadt, Berlin, Germany

Charlie Living Berlin Friedrichstadt by GRAFT
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Charlie Living is the largest newly-built predominantly residential project in Friedrichstadt, in direct proximity to former Checkpoint Charlie.

Charlie Living Berlin Friedrichstadt by GRAFT

– The open ensemble of four new buildings fills one of the last open lots of Berlin Mitte with its former strip of the Berlin Wall.

Charlie Living Berlin Friedrichstadt by GRAFT

– The Graft design with its high public permeability of accessible existing paths through to the inner area of the complex connecting with the neighbouring E-Werk and hotel on Mauerstraße, stands in contrast with the otherwise closed block structure of the immediate vicinity.

Charlie Living Berlin Friedrichstadt by GRAFT

Building A accommodates an Apartment Hotel and lobby together with retail units on the ground floor, as well as apartments situated in the side wing, opening up to the courtyard.

Friedrichstadt housing by GRAFT in German capital city

Along Zimmerstraße Building A stands out with its graphite-coloured, relief-like façade. Above the double-story plinth and distributed over five floors, street-facing studio-apartments with bay windows of varying projecting depths as extensions of the living area, allow views from Zimmerstraße all the way down to Checkpoint Charlie.

German capital apartment development design by GRAFT

These stepped bay windows emerge increasingly from the façade to the west to mark a deflection point into the internal courtyard.

Charlie Living Berlin Friedrichstadt by GRAFT

Since on the west side a future joint towards a new building is foreseen on the development plan, the main access to the inner complex was able to be repositioned “around the corner” on the western side of the site. As a result, an acoustic shielding of the courtyard areas has been achieved while retaining the greatest possible openness.

Friedrichstadt apartments design by GRAFT

The side wing of Building A serves to block off the long firewall of the neighbouring buildings to the east, orienting a large portion of the rental apartments westward towards the green courtyard. Conversely, many of these units benefit from the building joint which brings afternoon sun into the courtyard.

Charlie Living Berlin Apartments design by GRAFT

Building B, comprised of medium-sized apartments, was built at the eastern rear connection. Here a projecting, slightly inclined and optically pleated balcony balustrade allows varying sized balconies to be realised thereby guaranteeing natural sunlight while in the darker seasons the sun reaches the depth of the apartments. Due to its distinctive corners, the otherwise stringent building achieves a sculptural effect.

Charlie Living Berlin Apartments design by GRAFT

Building C, the third central structure, detaches itself conspicuously from the typological regularity due to its unexpected interwoven sculptural balcony structures. The triangular balcony areas change their orientation alternately per floor, thrusting every second floor off the façade so that the overlying balcony recedes thus creating a terraced feeling.

Charlie Living Berlin Friedrichstadt by GRAFT

Attached to the verticals are tree troughs, there to create a sphere of privacy. The trees appear to climb up the façade, perpetuating the green character of the inner courtyard with the outer walls.

Friedrichstadt housing by GRAFT Architects

Charlie Living Berlin Friedrichstadt – Building Information

Project Type: Newly constructed residential complex with 243 rental units, retail and hotel with basement parking

Location: Zimmerstraße 92-94, 10117 Berlin, Germany

Year: 2017 – 2020

Charlie Living Berlin Apartments design by GRAFT Charlie Living Berlin Apartments design by GRAFT

Principal: Trockland, www.trockland.com

Status: Completed

Size: 33,100 m2

Charlie Living Berlin Apartments design by GRAFT Charlie Living Berlin Apartments design by GRAFT

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Charlie Living Berlin Friedrichstadt images / information from GRAFT Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH

Location: Zimmerstraße 92-94, 10117 Berlin, Germany, western Europe

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